Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1887-08-25
Boomers and Schemers.

Boomers and Schemers.
The rallying war cry with the oppo-
sition to the bond proposition in Reno
county is, "down the Hutchinson boom
er and schemer!" What is the boomer
and schemer? Did you ever analyze
the phrase? Let us do SO.
A boomer and a schemer in the first
place is man, usually, who takes an
abiding and sincere interest in his city
and its surrounding country. He is a
man, usually, who has property inter-
ests in the community for which he
booms and schemes. He wishes to en-
nance the value of his property and by
so doing he indirectly enhances the
value of every piece of property in his
Northumberland for this he booms
and schemes.
A boomer and schemer is a man
who lays awake nights to perfect plans
for advertising his city and county and
its claims to precedence on the score Of
excellence. He is man who thinks
nothing of advertising from his private
funds, sum sufficient to so advertise,
knowing the benefits to accure to him
and his associates in the end. He is a
man who of necessity must be unselfsh.
No man can be boomer and schemer
and be hide bound mossback. He
spends his time and his money to ben
eft himself and so benefits others. He
can not be penurious, he can not be un-
progressive. he must at all times be
ready to accept great chances and take
great risks if he would be successful as
schemer and boomer.
A schemer and boomer is a man
who scents railroad enterprises from
afar off. He rises in the middle of
the night to rush off and circumyent a
rival city in securing the latest things
in the great trunk lines. He is the
fellow who builds up great commercial
centers and provides the farmer with
excellent home markets. He is the
fellow who doubles the taxable property
in his adjacent neighborhood in single
six months. He is rip snorting hus-
tier from Hustler sville. He is known
as the bowler from Hutchinson and In
all his bright lexicon there is no such
word as fail. He secures for you your
transportation facilities and arranges
matters SO that you may enjoy the lux.
uries of first class coach by signaling
the fast express with your last years
red underwear.
The schemer and boomer is the man
who is responsible for the two to ter
column advertisements of Kansas in
the great eastern dailies, which wher
you read you hug to your breast as the
glorious overflow of enthusiasm coming
from some visiting representative Of
New England's hoarded capital. Tt
him your epistolatory laudation is mere
ly matter of lines and a raid on his
check book. He is an unfailing source
of information and is walking CYCLIC
pedia of the advantages possessed by
his locality and its superiority over the
particular region from which the immi
grant emanates. He is the builder o.
Kansas and with professors of progress
| his actions and methods are taken as ,
foundation upon which to build text
books. His many virtues as an adver
Using agent would FIJI volume and b
is dearer to the heart of the Kansal
than his 900 pound hogs.
A more unfortunate war cry could
not be chosen by the bond opponents
Down the schemers and boomers
Never! Call our additions sand lots
our merchants robbers, our loved Ar
kansas sewer and our city fish trap
Call us an addition to Wichita and
suburb of Newton; dependency o
Haven and flag station on our rail
roads, but leave us our schemers an,
boomers, if ye have eart!-Hutchin
son Democrat.
/ A man in Kiowa county last year plant
ed one third of an acre of peanuts. Las
} year he dug from the patch seventy -eigh
bushels, and sold them at q dollar = busl
ell Profitting by last years experience
this wear he has fOur acrea al 6ninp wei